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ESTABLISHED 1880. V THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1907: irfi ^.irPv;Jfi»?ro^' fV;--"r.*-r'' > * XXYII. NO. 39.
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Forbes & Wallace's. Forbes & Wallace's.
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Every lino of Furniture is included in this Clearance. Furniture for the Dining
Room, Bedroom, Parlor, Library, Hall and Den Odd Pieces, Single sets, Broken lots*
Incomplete lines, Discontinued patterns. This is the occasion when we make a clean
sweep of everything that for any reason we do not want to carry in stock longer.
There are hundreds of pieces, of all good, grades, on which reductions have been tnade
with little regard to cost or value. Our only concern is to find the price that will sell
them quickly. As quanttiies are limited, in most cases, those who come first will be
most likely to secure the particular pieces they have in mind.
DINING TABLES
Former Price. Clearance Price.
$39.75 Pedest'l Dining . Tables,
$27.00 Pedest'l Dining: Tables,
$24.75 Pedest'l Dining Tables,
$21.00 Pedest'l Dining Tables,
$14.50 Pedest'l Dining Tables,
$29.75 Qtd. O. Dining Tables,
$22.00 Qtd. 0. Dining Tables,
$15.00 Qtd. 0/ Dining Tables,
$43.50 Qtd.
$36-75 Qtd.
$12.50 Qtd.
CHINA CLOSETS
0. China Closets,
0. China Closets.
0. China Closets,
DINING CHAIRS
$29.98
$22.75
$19.00
$18.00
$11.98
$21.50
$17.98
$10.98
•32.75
$28.50
$7-5o
Odd Dining Chairs, one, two and three
of a kind, including strong Arm Chairs,
- suitable for offices, former prices, $2.50
to $10.00 each, Clearance Prices, $1.25 to
$5.00.
$36.00 Set of Dining Chairs, ' $29.00
$30.00 Set of Dining Chairs, $24.25
$20.50 Set of Dining Chairs, $16.75
$17.50 Set of Dining Chairs, $14.98
SIDEBOARDS
$5i .50 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, .....$42.75
,.'$?3.oo (*td. Oak Sideboards, $27.75
$21.50 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, $17.98
$18.50 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, $14.98
$14.00 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, $11.98
BUFFETS
$69.75 Quartered Oak Buffets, .. .$49.00
$52.00 Quartered Oak Buffets, ...$39.00
$42.00 Quartered Oak Buffets, ...$35.00
$29.50 Quartered -Oak "Buffets, .. .$22.98
$24.00 Quartered Oak Buffets, ...$19.25
$18.75 Quartered 0(ak Buffets, .. .$15.00
WOMEN'S DESKS
- $26.00 Mahogany Desks $19.50
Former Price. : Clearance Price.
$16.25 Mahogany Desks ...... $11.48
$1 x.g8 ^fahogany Desks .. ..... $7.48
$6.48 Mahogany Desks. $4.98
$5.75 Mahogany Desks $3.98
$12.98 Quartered Oak Desks $7.98
$11.98 Quartered Oak Desks $7-48
METAL BEDSTEADS
$95.00 Brass Bedsteads •"! $75.00
$63.00 Brass Bedsteads ". $39.00
$44.50 Brass Bedsteads $38.75
$35.00 Brass Bedsteads ....... ..$27.50
$28.00 Brass Bedsteads ...$18.98
$14.25 W. Enameled Bedsteads . .$11.50
$13.50 W. Enameled Bedsteads ..$10.48
$13.50 W. Enameled Bedsteads .. $9.50
$9.00 W. Enameled Bedsteads .. $6.98
$8.75 W. Enameled Bedsteads .. $6.48
~ Former Price. Clearance Price.
$19.25 Quartered 0# Chiffoniers, $16.00
$18.98 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $15.00
DRESSERS
$40.50 Quartered Oak Dressers
$24.75 Quartered Oak Dressers
$18.98 Quartered Oak Dressers
$42.50 Mahogany Dressers
$35.00 Mahogany Dressers
$27.00 Mahogany Dressers
$26.75 Mahogany Dressers ..
$27.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$23.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$21.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$16.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$23.75 Princess Mhg. Dressers
$18.00 Princess Mhg. Dressers
.. .$29.00
.. .$19.00
.. .$13.98
.$33.00
$29.00
$22.00
. ..$19.00
.. .$22.00
. ..$19.00
.. .$16.00
. .!$ii.g8
... $19.00
.. $14.75
CHIFFONIERS *
$39.00 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's ....$26.00
$29.50 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's ....$ig.oo
$27.00 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's .... $22.00
$23.00 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's .... $19.00
$23.75 Mahogany Chiffoniers $19.00
$21.00 Mahogany Chiffoniers $17.00
$18.50 Mahogany Chiffoniers $14.98
$33.00 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $25.00
$27.00 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $19.00 j
$24.00 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $19.00 j
GILT CHAIRS
$9.98 Gilt Chairs
$7.50 Gilt Chairs
$7.25 Gilt Chairs
$5.75 Gilt Chairs
$2.50 Gilt Chairp
.7.$4.98
......$3.75
$3-75
.$2.98
. . . . . . . $ 1 . 2 5
V ODD PARLOR CHAIRS
$20.00 Chairs - • $14*98
$10.00 Chairs • $7*48
$7.50 Chairs $5.25
$6.48 Chairs' $5*25
$4.50 Chairs i • • • $3*98
PARLOR SUITS
$87.00 3-Piece Parlor Suits $69.00
$39.50 3-Piece Parlor Suite $32.00
$47.50 3-Piece Parlor Suits ...... $29.00
$35.00 3-Piece Parlor Suits ..... .$29.00
$24.75 3-Piece Parlor Suits ......$19.98
ODD DIVANS
$45.00 Divans
$30.75 Divans
$21.50 Divans
$ig.oo Divans
$36.00
^24.50
$17.00
$16.25
HALL SETTEES
$18.50 Hall Settees ... ...
$16.00 Hall Settees
$9.75 Hall Settees
HALL CHAIRS
$12.00 Mahogany Hall Chairs
$6.75 G'den Oak Hall Chairs
HALL MIRRORS
$16.98 Hall Mirrors with H'ks
$14.98 Hall Mirrors with H'ks
$11.00 Ilall Mirrors with H'ks
$4.98 Hall Mirrors with H'ks
..$12.98
..$12.48
.. $6.98
.. ..$5.98
.. ..$4.98
.$13.25
. $7.50
. $5:5o
. $2.48
Ifev January Clearance of
Carpets—Rngs—Linoleums—Oil Cloths—Mattings—Weil-Known, Standard
Makes,"at DecisivT Reductions.
Important Events Now in Progress of Muslin
Annual January
Sale of Housekeeping Linens—The Annual January Sale of Cottons and
Domestics—The Annual January Sale- of Men's Shirts and Underwear—The
Annual Picture Sale — The January Clearance of Women's Kid Gloves — The
Semi-Annual Shoe Clearance—The Annual January Clearance in the Cloak Room—
The Opening Displays of New Spring Wash Goods—The First Showing of New Spring
Embroideries—Special Offerings of Corsets, Stamped Squares and Scarfs at Half—
Knit Underwear at 1-3 to 5-8 Under Value, Boys' Clothing, Infants' Wear, Jewelry
and Cameras. r
Forbes
Main, Vernon and Pynchon Streets, Springfield, Mass.
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THOMPSONVILLE
ROLLER SKATINQ RINK
Open Every Afternoon and Evening.
8 to 5 and 7.30 to 10.30.
NORTH END
INURSERIES.
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
JANUARY 1
FOR
MONDAY and TUESuAY,
Jan 21 and 22
Trick Roller Skating by
Prof H T FreBette
WEDNESDAY. January 23,
Boys' Half Mile Race;
2 Prizes
THURSDAY. January 81,
Fancy Dr,,88 Carnival;
; > 10 Cash Prizes
Batnrflay Sale of
Chocolates!
We have proved over and over again
to old and IIPW customers that we sell
Fine Candies equal, if not superior, to
any you ever get in the most exclusive
candy stores One of our strongest at­tractions
is our . s: .
:SPECIAL SATURDAY SALE OF
Sp
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29c For a Pound Box.i
These are especially made for us in
the best candy manufactory in the coun­try,
arriving fresh every week. We
offer them to you at this special price on
Saturdays only, to make you acquainted
with our Candy department. Try a bo*,
andwe>npwyou will bebackformore.
03 x t., Thompsonville, Ct.
T wotelephones, 89-21——46-2.
trolley «tQ|M hfra
Trees, Shrubs, Plants
• and Bulbs.
PLACE tOUR ORDER
NOW ! .
We are headquarters for every­thing
in the lineof Fruit and Shade
Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Hardy
Herbaceous Plauts.ClimbingVines
Small Fruits and Berry Plants,
Roses of all kinds, Summer Flow­ering
Bulbs, Asparagus and Rhu­barb
roots. \ -
L.. North-End Nurseriesr
CHESTER F.BRA1NARD,
Thompsonville.
Telephone—office Maple street.
Epstein's Express.
Farnitare and Piano Moving.
Light and Heavy Tracking.
Depot carnage meets all trains from
7.16 a m to 7 p m, and later if ordered,
tlave also an Adjustable Window Derrick foi
hoisting Pianos, etc.
Office 80 Main street Telephone con­nection.
A J. EPSTEIN, prop. P. O. Box 10J4
Besidence 16 Central St.,
ThoTODRonvlllft. >- Conn.
Oates' Express.
^ Oates' Express does all kinds of Light
•aid Heavy teaming.
Freight work is a special feature fo*
-Very-day business.
Moving pianos and household furni
nure carefully attended to.
Furniture stored by the week oi
month, with or without insurance
EDWIN OATES,
Prospect street, ,* . v
* i^omBflonville,sf>^Ooni»
Td)ar»hr>T>A'H»H 4.9-14 A
THE NAM
" E. M.
^ T; signed to a diploma signifies tfie highest excellence
of Business or Shorthand training in this
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ONCE
as
Incorporated.
diploma means qualification?, and is obtained bhly by proper
examinations. - . .
Over 550 pupils attended last year; each pupU counted
This attendance was at leietst two if not three times as
that of any other business school in Hartford.
New pupils enter every week. < ;E M. HUNT8INGER, Principal,
Passenger Elevator. 30 Asyluto 8t.» Hartford,
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AL ICE LOUISE
Copyright Alice Louise
INCB his sixth year Leandet
Remely 2d had regarded Hal­loween
as sacred to getting even
with such inhabitants of Shedd's
Corners as had trampled on his rights
and privileges on many occasions.
Twice six HalIo\yeens had dawned
on him when his vengeance was direct­ed
toward a -certain; Jacob Fessler, only
a couple of years distant from Ellis is­land,
a big rawboned German who
picked up our language slowly and was
regarded as rather stupid until one
bright Saturday in October when that
illusion was dispelled.
Jacob lived on the swamp farm half
a mile from Shedd's Corners. The
name of the farm indicated its general
forlornness, while the little story and a
half ramshackle brown house near the
road bore witness to the fact that the
place was, in the language of Shedd's
Corners, "clean run down.".. This popu­lar
opinion Jacob Fessler, his mother, a
horse, two cows and a pig were doing
their best to undermine.
Of crops that first year Jacob had al­most
none, but nature provided him
with an amaiingly abundant October
crop, for which he had toiled not. Scat­tered
over the farm, on every grassy
knoll of the rocky hillside above the
SWamp, great chestnut trees spread
their branches full of ripe nuts.
Now, Jacob, being new to the land
and a stranger to its unwritten laws,
was foolish enough to suppose that the
chestnuts, being part and parcel of his
property, belonged to him, a mistake
which a dozen of the small boys of
Shedd's Corners, led by Leander 2d.
strove to point out to him that mem­orable
Saturday in October."
It was a bright, crisp morning, jusl
the time, thought Mrs. Remely, stand­ing
over the gridiron, to send Leander
out to sell soft soap in behalf of her
church fund; therefore she rapped
smartly on the stovepipe with the pan­cake
turner and called nasally: "Le-an-
der! Le-an-der! Get right up or
I'll tell your pa.'.'
There was no reply—she Jiad expect­ed
none—but immediately a loud
thump above, followed by another, form­ally
announced the faot that both of
Leander's feet had shot through the
legs of his trousers and were planted
on the floofr. Mrs. Remely knew^frpm
experiencerthat there must be. a ipectal
reason'for such unwonted activitv. but
she made no remarks when he r v ir-ed
at the stair door.
Leander, thoroughly acquainted with
that reason, also made no remarks.
Out in the barn, hidden, lay his fa­ther's
new bamboo fishing pole and
two of the'best meal sacks for which
Leander 1st had been searching three
days.
"Leander," remarked his mother at
the breakfast table, "after breakfast 1
I
THB TWELFTH WAS IONOMTNIOrSLX HELD.
want that you, should take, that pail of
soap Mrs. Fessler made for me and go
up Maple street and sell it." She
dumped two smoking hot griddlecakes
on her son's plate as a propitiatory of­fering,
but it did not propitiate.
One fist .doubled ^mechanically into
his eye and a wail, of "Now, ma," arose,
but Leander 1st interposed sternly, "Do
as your mother says and stop that
bawling!"
This^ settled matters, fish pole, meal
sacks and all. Half an hour after Lean­der
started out his soul filled with a
loathing which included soft soap,
church projects and the imposition on
his time constantly occurring in the
bosom of his family. As to the project,
the women of the M. EJ. church were
seeing' who could raise the greatest
amount of money from an original in­vestment
of 10 cents each. As' a result
Mrs. Remely was victimizing the town
with soap manufactured for her by
Mrs. Fessler.
Just around the corner ^Leander ran
into his right hand lieutenant, Sissy
Brown, Sissy was headed for the
swamp armed with baskets and a long
pole. "Hey, there!" cried Sissy. "Wot
FOU up to now?"
"Soap!" sniffed Leander, holding the
pail of strong smelling, .Jellylike sub­stance
as far away as his arm would
reach. .
He had no need to say more. SiMf
understood. Sissj was> aour. out by his
mother • thrice a week with loaves of
now bread to sell. He had long fett
that never again cottld he eat anything
tainted with.the smell of new bread. ,
ihe boys exchange!.-looks.,
darstjre?" asked; Sissy^S? .|#^
"Xep,. I darstl" returned Leander, hw
eyes roving to the pole i: .id baskets.
'QTou -bo < ,mnnin', tt&h&enuu,"" -stfg;ger'
Jjjpnjltar nhoji^l!. A .{OOt sllBt .00t.i|
front of him. There was a crash, a fall,
and away rolled the pail of soap, spill­ing
its contents over the walk. Once
Leandet had performed a similar act of
friendship for Sissy when they wanted
to go fishing, only the bread had beet
directed into the gutter.
After that the way of the-transgress­ors
was easy —for awhile. Leander,
concluding not to reveal the catas­trophe
to his mother until later, hid the
pail: behind the fence, stole into the
barn by way of the stable door, secur­ed
the bag3 and fishing pole and in an
incre'dibly short time was thrashing
the chestnut trees on the swamp farm
along with Sissy and ten other kindred
spirits.
Hour after hour they worked, while
the sun's rays grew hotter until Lean­der
voiced the general condition when
he announced complaisantly that he
was "all of a lather!" To be sure, ho
was never complaisant about being
"lathered" when at, work- in his father's
garden, but what did perspiration mat­ter
beside two meal bags full of chest­nuts
at $3 per bushel ? Nothing matter­ed,
although he knew there must come
an hour of reckoning, for the bambbo
pole was a wreck, while the seat of his
.trousers was badly punctured owing to
a broken branch in a tree. Further­more
his hands, knees and elbows
wer^ full of prickers, and a hard red
lump adorned the back of his neck,
called Into being by a chestnut bur flee-
Ing^rom the end of a long pole.
Yes, he knew there must come an
hour of reckoning, but he had not
counted on its arriving so suddenly and
unexpectedly as it did.
It-was nearly noon when he headed
a procession of boys staggering under
their last loads toward the thicket near
the line fence where their treasure
was stored. He it was who pushed
first among the branches and saw the
heaped up bags—and something else!
He gave one yell, and a moment later
elfeyen boys, unincumbered, were flying^
heltier skelter over the fence, while the
twelfth was ignominiously held by
means of a broad German hand at the
seat of his punctured trousers and an­other
on his coat collar.
"Dist 1st eine, whay ybu call—it—bee,
ya?" inquired Jacob pleasantly as he
churned the unfortunate Leander up
and down. "Eine bee fur to nuts, gath­er!
Ya?"
With the last word Leander flew
head first across the fence, landed in a
mud puddle and went home a sadder
and: a madder, boy than when he had
started out w?th the soap.
The soap episode had entirely escap­ed
his mind, but not his mother's. An
inkling of the affair had reached her
owtag to the downfall of the minister,
whose salary the soap fund was in­tended
to swell. That good man found
It unhealthy to. tread on slippery places
and: had brought-his grievance, also the.
discovered soap pail, to the mortified
Mrs/Remely.
Therefore it happened that there was
a deal of one sided conversation in the
kitchen between Leanders the first and
the second directly on the latter's ar­rival,
and it ended by the second's re­tiring
to the wood shed while the first
cut off such a portion of the weeping
willow back of the house as was suit­able
to the occasion. That weeping
willow was already badly mutilated.
Late -in the day when Leander the
younger emerged from temporary con­finement
and dry crackers a gleam of
joy entered his soul at sight of the
calendar hanging under the kitchen
clock. Halloween was only two weeks
off!
As the days passed the joy was deep­ened
by various occurrences. First, in
conveying the last bag of chestnuts to
the store Jacob Fessler ha<| sprained
his ankle and was "laid up a spell."
This of course was a just judgmenl
on him for his infamous conduct to­ward
the nut harvesters. Next, old
Mrs. B'essler, for reasons unstated, an­nounced
sorrowfully that she could
make no more soap for Mrs. Remely.
Leander did not share her grief. The
news made him jubilant. He had lei­sure
now to plan how to get even with
his father and with Jacob Fessler on
Halloween. In getting even with the
latter he had eleven able allies.
But as the eventful evening drew
near discouraging,obstacles arose. The
twelve proposed only to find that cir­cumstances
disposed promptly of the
proposals^ Sissy suggested- that they
tie the Fessler cow hoof and horn and
convey her to the loft o£ the barn. In­vestigation
brought to light the fact
that the cow, pig and hens had gone
into winter quarters in the cellar of the
Fessler house and that the outside cel­lar
door, securely barred at night, open­ed
under Jacob's window.
The twelve were dispirited, but hope
revived when they bethought them of
the horse. He still occupied the barn,
but they retired in a thoughtful mood,
the night before. Halloween > after the
horse had actively demonstrated his
ability to protect himself frOm Hal­loween
jokes. Leander was the one on
whom the demonstration made the
deepest impression.
The Jokers were becoming desperate
when Leander, nursing his bruises, had
a bright idea. It was not considered so
conspicuously brilliant as some of his
Ideas were because—
"Gee! Ifs too much work," grum­bled
Stesy.
"And It's one on the old woman, too,"
objected Mgshy White. Mushy al­ways
objectori. "We ain't got nothin'
laid up agio her!" s
"Think of aomethln' better yourseEf,
then!" defied Leander proudly, and the
opposition was silenced.
"Yon go to bed betimes tonight*" said
Leander 1st at the supper table on
Halloween. "I'm not going to have
my son tip to these disgraceful Hallow-piled
the "boxes neatly In the "barn.
The kindling wood victim grinned
broadly now in the darkness as he
thought of the days of leisure he was
securing himself by the transference of
those boxes to the swamp farm.
For five hours those twelve boys
worked in feverish haste, assisted by
old Dobbin, the Remely horse, that
had for fifteen years strenuously ob­jected
to feverish movements. But at
5 o'clock by the light of a setting moon
the conspirators viewed a sight worth
XIEANDEB DUCKED H'S HEAD BENEATH
THE TABLE.
looking: at. They sat In a row in the
shadow of the bushes opposite a wonder­ful
structure their industry had raised on
the swamp farm.
"Golly, boys! Ain't it a corker though?"
whispered Leander.
Sissy rubbed his lame back and giggled.
"They won't know when daylight strikes
'em till about noon, I guess."
"If pa should find out," mused Leander
aloud and then paused. He felt some del­icacy
about mentioning tlie weeping wil­low—
that being strictly a family matter—
and so added lamely: "He'd be some mad
over the kindling. Remember, you fel­lows,
It's never tell, crisscross hearts,
honest Injun!"
"You bet!" Mushy "hastened to assure
him earnestly. Mushy's earnestness was
based on reasons which arose on the ma­ternal
side of his family.
Then the boys stole away, looking back
lingeringly at the story and a half house,
no spot of which was visible because of
the hundreds of boxes which reared them­selves
to its height, followed the contour
of the roof and overtopped the chimney.
In front of the windows and doors were
barricades of the heaviest boxes. The
walks were outlined with boxes, while in
front of the barn door was a box tower
of Pisa, with a perilous lean toward the
garden fence. ,
Oh, it was a neat job, and Leander
swelled with pride as he entered his room
by way of the porch roof! But by break­fast
time the swelling had partially sub­sided,
for Leander had a bad case of
Bnuffles.
"Did you sleep with your -window
opieri?" demanded his mother.
Leander wiggled uneasily. "Guess the
wind did blow on me some," he admitted.
The sniffles were forgotten, however,
when the elder Leander stamped in from
the barn fresh from the discovery of his
loss.
"It's a shame, an outrage, a crime!
Such thefts ought to be hunted down and
the criminals brought to punishment!"
Leander 2d's legs gave way at the knee,
and he sat down suddenly.- "If other
parents took the same precautions we
do"—
Here he paused as his roving eye light­ed
on his shaking son. "Were you in bed
last night at 7:30?"
"Yes, sir," promptly, in a tone of relief.
"Besides the outrage of the thing," Mr.
Remely continued later in calmer mood,
"it is considerable loss to Leander here."
Leander ducked his head beneath the
table ostensibly to call the cat, in reality
to allow the corners of his mouth to turn
up unnoticed in an exultant grin as he
reflected that his father referred -to the
loss of exercise with the ax.
"I'd sold the kindling in those boxes to
Brown," Mr. Remely continued, "and
Intended to turn the whole business over
to Leander here for Christmas money.
"Twould amount to $4 or $5." .
The corners of Leander's mouth took a
decided downward curve. Vindictively he
kicked the cat under the table, and to
Sissy he confided in the middle of the
forenoon, "A feller can't seem to have no
fun any more anyway." He spoke gloom­ily
from the open window of his room,
whither Sissy had called him by a shrill
whistle.
His throat was done up in red flannel,
and a large mustard plaster was blister­ing
his chest. He was supposed to be in
bed.
"Say, that's a fact!" Sissy replied, with
unction, A large basket of new bread
weighed down each arm. "I've just been
over to the swamp peekin', and what'd
you think? Jake and the old woman was
out spllttin' up boxes and actin' tickled to
death. Jake he stood the knee of that
game leg of his'n on to a box and was
choppin* for all he was worth,"
Leander groaned, but the full signifi­cance
of Jacob's chopping did not dawn
on him till after dinner. Then the iron
entered his soul.
"Land!" exclaimed Mrs. Remely, bus­tling
into the sitting room. "Mrs: Fessler
has Just been here, and as near as I can
mak» out of her gabble Providence has
sent her a lot of wood so she can make
soap again. Now, Leander'—briskly—
"I'm going to spend the pest of the day
dosing you so'st you'll be.jrea^y to go out
peddling it tomorrow. I'll Just mix Up
another plaster and slap it on between
your shoulder blades and break up that
cough In no time. T ain't willing that
any one in the church shall have mors to
show for their 10 cents than I!'.' " .
Bnyingr a Gift. Boofcv?>|if "S'SfeSy?
Tbe principle of choice should in gen­eral
follow tbe taste or need of the
friend for whom you are selecting a
book. Yet It is also well now and
then to open a new channel of Interest
by giving a volume outside of your
friend's habitual line. We are often
thankful to a friend who has drawn us
out of our mental sheep tracks. There
are a few writers that stand as per­manent
figures in the modern literary
world—writers who have given out
seinlnal ideas that seed and beautify
the field of thought. Chief among these
men are Shakespeare, Carlyle, .Ruskin,
Emerson and Victor Hugo. Until a Ubra-een
tricks. See that he is in bed earlier' ry possesses at least the best writings
_ "" of these five men it is sadly deficient.
You are doing kingly service when you
make these men known to any thought­ful
mind.—Edwin Markham luSjwicess,,
than usual,* to Mrs. Remely. "Half
past 7 will do." -
Leander12d m^ekiy obeyed, but Since
the comfnand did not include the hour
of his rising, he fixed that for himself.
At midnight he stole out on the roof of
the porch and dropped to the ground
with the barn key in his hand.
The eleven were awaiting him;
The elder Remely was a grocer, and
at least three "times a year Leander
:r:g¥§pM[ I>pro»y, Law(.^>^4'
' In the earliest code of Brititenllawa
QOW extant—namely, that of Hoel Dha,
a/famous kihg of Gahibrla (the present
Wales), who died about the year 050
. ...... . A; D.—we find a canon enacting In
as hie could n±ot escape* transforming PWn aad •mmtetaKbte ten,, that
into kindling wood boxes of all sizes,
shapes and thicknesses.
"It'Sigood exercise for the boy," Le-
>ndyf11»t win wont tp r§gaark as he
married woman whose husband was
afflicted with leprosy was entitled not
only to separation, but also to the resti­tution
of ber goods.
many fields of hu-*
man activity the
world goes along in
a rat, without any par­ticular
reason, except ^
that it is a little incon­venient
to get out of it.
Then somebody
comes along with a lot
of courage and self-initiative
and says,
"You're wrong, and I
can prove it."
f He does so, and the
world wakes up to the
fact that he is right.
I am making just that
statement about the
present method of sell­ing
investments.
It is an ambitious thing for me
to say, but I know that I am right
and will prove it to your satisfac­tion
if you will read my adver­t
i s e m e n t s in t h i s p a p e r f r o m
week to week.
There is a real need for some
one who knows to tell the truth
about this subject.
Thomas C. Perkins
Conn. Mutual Building
Bartford, Conn.
J. Mulligan.
LAWYER,
Office 5 and 6, Mulligan block, Thomp­sonville,
Conn.
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the last resting place
of your departed ones
by the erection of a
suitable memorial,
v Let it be of exclu-jsi^
e design and
stantial material. '
LET IT BE
OUR KIND—
wherein the work­manship
is perfect,
and the price just and
fair.
Works,
M. J. Liberty, Prop.
- Works:
j • Pearl St., Thompsonville, Conn. J [
JSpElectric Cars
pass the works.
Medicines
Visit the Store of
W. L. Benton & Go
Main street, Thompsonville.;
Dr, Parker's Cures.
For 20 years I have been
treating ohronio diseases,
and my great success by
my own methods has given
me an ever increasing busi
ness, I cure where others
fail, for I use medioineahd
treatment which is original
_a nd su.. re.: /«' AV !'
Cancers and Tumors
I cure solely by my absorption method.
No knife No cutting. Only healing
oils and herbs.
Diseases of
I never use poisonous drugs, but go at
tbe seat of the evil by cleaning the
blood with my own medioines. |||||ll
Ohronio'Diseases" •?' ' ;
No matter What the disease or how long
' standing I can help you. If it is possi­ble
1 can restore your health.
XeD« Sick Women
* I charge nothing for a friendly talk; in
fact, oome and Bee me and I will tell
you your trouble or ailment and ho#
you can be oured.
Furnish My Patients With Xediebe^g
Consultation and examination Free.
Officfe 585$ Main Street,
Physielans and Surgeons.
EF. PARSONS, M. D.,
. PHYSICIAN AND SDRGSON. '
Besidence and office No. 45 Pearl street,
rhompsonvllle, Conn. Office hours, 8.00 to 9.00
a. m.; 2.00 to 8.00, and 0.00 to 7.80 p. m. Orders
may be left at E. N. Smith's drug store. 75
•• • ANNOUNCEMENT.
Dr. John F. McHugh, former resident
physician at the Mercy Hospitalin
Springfield, has opened an office in Mul­ligan^
block for the general • practice of
his profession. Hours until 9 a. m., 1 to
3 and 7 to 8 30 p. ra. Telephone 87-8
Dentistry.
g H. THORNTON, D.D.S.
MANSLEY'S BLOCK, .
Thompsonville, Conn.
Appointments can be made by tele­phone.
Office call, 74-3; house, 74-21.
Mnaic, Etc.
Albert Mills,
Teacher Violin and Viola.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION TO BEGINNERS
21 Lincoln street, Thompsonville.
FEEDEEIC C. ABBE.
Teacher of Music
Studio, Room 4. Mulligan's Block,
THOMPSONVILLE.
Pianos. Sheet Music, Self-players. v
Lawyers.
W. Gibson Field,
ATTORNEY A>D
C0UNSEL0R-AT-LAW,
OFFICE, - 139 KNFIELD STREKT
(Southwest from Post-Office),
ENPIELD, OOlsTlT.
BUSINESS IN HARTFORD AND SPRING-FIELD
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
LINCOLN W. MORRISON,
Attorney and Counselor-at-Lnw,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Main St., over Murphy's Clothing Store,
THOMPSONVILLE, CONN.
ALBERT S. GORDON,
Connselor-at-Law,
Cor. South Pearl and Enfield Sts.,
TH0MPS0SY1LLE, - - - CONN. ^
; Telephone 95-5.
Henry Willis Kins,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
50 State St., Hartford, Conn.
Telephone 233-2.
Residence, 1 New King St., Thompsonville.
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UNDERTAKER and EMBALMER
45 AND 47 MAIN ST.,
THOMFSONYIIXB, . . . COMM.
K LEIN, BROWN & CO.,
UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING.
80 Main street, )
Besidence, 40 Pearl st, f Thompsonville.
Telephone connection.
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MEDIC ATKD AIR.
Ever heard of it ?
It is for painless filling, as well as for
extracting.
Dr Wiley uses it
Real Estate Agent
COLLECTOR OF
RENTS AND ACCOUNTS.
Henry IDavis,
No. 44 Pearl St., Thompsonville, Conn.
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AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS, REPAIR­ERS,
DEMONSTRATORS wanted every­where
Great opportunities and high
salaries to competent men. Join our
school, and we guarantee to fit you for a
position in the early spring. Complete
oourse $25. Easy payments. Call or
write.
NEW ENGLAND AUTO SCHOOL,
85 and 87 Mulberry St., Hartford, Conn.
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Forbes & Wallace's. Forbes & Wallace's.
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Every lino of Furniture is included in this Clearance. Furniture for the Dining
Room, Bedroom, Parlor, Library, Hall and Den Odd Pieces, Single sets, Broken lots*
Incomplete lines, Discontinued patterns. This is the occasion when we make a clean
sweep of everything that for any reason we do not want to carry in stock longer.
There are hundreds of pieces, of all good, grades, on which reductions have been tnade
with little regard to cost or value. Our only concern is to find the price that will sell
them quickly. As quanttiies are limited, in most cases, those who come first will be
most likely to secure the particular pieces they have in mind.
DINING TABLES
Former Price. Clearance Price.
$39.75 Pedest'l Dining . Tables,
$27.00 Pedest'l Dining: Tables,
$24.75 Pedest'l Dining Tables,
$21.00 Pedest'l Dining Tables,
$14.50 Pedest'l Dining Tables,
$29.75 Qtd. O. Dining Tables,
$22.00 Qtd. 0. Dining Tables,
$15.00 Qtd. 0/ Dining Tables,
$43.50 Qtd.
$36-75 Qtd.
$12.50 Qtd.
CHINA CLOSETS
0. China Closets,
0. China Closets.
0. China Closets,
DINING CHAIRS
$29.98
$22.75
$19.00
$18.00
$11.98
$21.50
$17.98
$10.98
•32.75
$28.50
$7-5o
Odd Dining Chairs, one, two and three
of a kind, including strong Arm Chairs,
- suitable for offices, former prices, $2.50
to $10.00 each, Clearance Prices, $1.25 to
$5.00.
$36.00 Set of Dining Chairs, ' $29.00
$30.00 Set of Dining Chairs, $24.25
$20.50 Set of Dining Chairs, $16.75
$17.50 Set of Dining Chairs, $14.98
SIDEBOARDS
$5i .50 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, .....$42.75
,.'$?3.oo (*td. Oak Sideboards, $27.75
$21.50 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, $17.98
$18.50 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, $14.98
$14.00 Qtd. Oak Sideboards, $11.98
BUFFETS
$69.75 Quartered Oak Buffets, .. .$49.00
$52.00 Quartered Oak Buffets, ...$39.00
$42.00 Quartered Oak Buffets, ...$35.00
$29.50 Quartered -Oak "Buffets, .. .$22.98
$24.00 Quartered Oak Buffets, ...$19.25
$18.75 Quartered 0(ak Buffets, .. .$15.00
WOMEN'S DESKS
- $26.00 Mahogany Desks $19.50
Former Price. : Clearance Price.
$16.25 Mahogany Desks ...... $11.48
$1 x.g8 ^fahogany Desks .. ..... $7.48
$6.48 Mahogany Desks. $4.98
$5.75 Mahogany Desks $3.98
$12.98 Quartered Oak Desks $7.98
$11.98 Quartered Oak Desks $7-48
METAL BEDSTEADS
$95.00 Brass Bedsteads •"! $75.00
$63.00 Brass Bedsteads ". $39.00
$44.50 Brass Bedsteads $38.75
$35.00 Brass Bedsteads ....... ..$27.50
$28.00 Brass Bedsteads ...$18.98
$14.25 W. Enameled Bedsteads . .$11.50
$13.50 W. Enameled Bedsteads ..$10.48
$13.50 W. Enameled Bedsteads .. $9.50
$9.00 W. Enameled Bedsteads .. $6.98
$8.75 W. Enameled Bedsteads .. $6.48
~ Former Price. Clearance Price.
$19.25 Quartered 0# Chiffoniers, $16.00
$18.98 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $15.00
DRESSERS
$40.50 Quartered Oak Dressers
$24.75 Quartered Oak Dressers
$18.98 Quartered Oak Dressers
$42.50 Mahogany Dressers
$35.00 Mahogany Dressers
$27.00 Mahogany Dressers
$26.75 Mahogany Dressers ..
$27.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$23.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$21.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$16.00 B'dseye Maple Dressers
$23.75 Princess Mhg. Dressers
$18.00 Princess Mhg. Dressers
.. .$29.00
.. .$19.00
.. .$13.98
.$33.00
$29.00
$22.00
. ..$19.00
.. .$22.00
. ..$19.00
.. .$16.00
. .!$ii.g8
... $19.00
.. $14.75
CHIFFONIERS *
$39.00 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's ....$26.00
$29.50 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's ....$ig.oo
$27.00 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's .... $22.00
$23.00 Birdseye Maple C'ffn's .... $19.00
$23.75 Mahogany Chiffoniers $19.00
$21.00 Mahogany Chiffoniers $17.00
$18.50 Mahogany Chiffoniers $14.98
$33.00 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $25.00
$27.00 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $19.00 j
$24.00 Quartered Oak Chiffoniers, $19.00 j
GILT CHAIRS
$9.98 Gilt Chairs
$7.50 Gilt Chairs
$7.25 Gilt Chairs
$5.75 Gilt Chairs
$2.50 Gilt Chairp
.7.$4.98
......$3.75
$3-75
.$2.98
. . . . . . . $ 1 . 2 5
V ODD PARLOR CHAIRS
$20.00 Chairs - • $14*98
$10.00 Chairs • $7*48
$7.50 Chairs $5.25
$6.48 Chairs' $5*25
$4.50 Chairs i • • • $3*98
PARLOR SUITS
$87.00 3-Piece Parlor Suits $69.00
$39.50 3-Piece Parlor Suite $32.00
$47.50 3-Piece Parlor Suits ...... $29.00
$35.00 3-Piece Parlor Suits ..... .$29.00
$24.75 3-Piece Parlor Suits ......$19.98
ODD DIVANS
$45.00 Divans
$30.75 Divans
$21.50 Divans
$ig.oo Divans
$36.00
^24.50
$17.00
$16.25
HALL SETTEES
$18.50 Hall Settees ... ...
$16.00 Hall Settees
$9.75 Hall Settees
HALL CHAIRS
$12.00 Mahogany Hall Chairs
$6.75 G'den Oak Hall Chairs
HALL MIRRORS
$16.98 Hall Mirrors with H'ks
$14.98 Hall Mirrors with H'ks
$11.00 Ilall Mirrors with H'ks
$4.98 Hall Mirrors with H'ks
..$12.98
..$12.48
.. $6.98
.. ..$5.98
.. ..$4.98
.$13.25
. $7.50
. $5:5o
. $2.48
Ifev January Clearance of
Carpets—Rngs—Linoleums—Oil Cloths—Mattings—Weil-Known, Standard
Makes,"at DecisivT Reductions.
Important Events Now in Progress of Muslin
Annual January
Sale of Housekeeping Linens—The Annual January Sale of Cottons and
Domestics—The Annual January Sale- of Men's Shirts and Underwear—The
Annual Picture Sale — The January Clearance of Women's Kid Gloves — The
Semi-Annual Shoe Clearance—The Annual January Clearance in the Cloak Room—
The Opening Displays of New Spring Wash Goods—The First Showing of New Spring
Embroideries—Special Offerings of Corsets, Stamped Squares and Scarfs at Half—
Knit Underwear at 1-3 to 5-8 Under Value, Boys' Clothing, Infants' Wear, Jewelry
and Cameras. r
Forbes
Main, Vernon and Pynchon Streets, Springfield, Mass.
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ROLLER SKATINQ RINK
Open Every Afternoon and Evening.
8 to 5 and 7.30 to 10.30.
NORTH END
INURSERIES.
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
JANUARY 1
FOR
MONDAY and TUESuAY,
Jan 21 and 22
Trick Roller Skating by
Prof H T FreBette
WEDNESDAY. January 23,
Boys' Half Mile Race;
2 Prizes
THURSDAY. January 81,
Fancy Dr,,88 Carnival;
; > 10 Cash Prizes
Batnrflay Sale of
Chocolates!
We have proved over and over again
to old and IIPW customers that we sell
Fine Candies equal, if not superior, to
any you ever get in the most exclusive
candy stores One of our strongest at­tractions
is our . s: .
:SPECIAL SATURDAY SALE OF
Sp
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29c For a Pound Box.i
These are especially made for us in
the best candy manufactory in the coun­try,
arriving fresh every week. We
offer them to you at this special price on
Saturdays only, to make you acquainted
with our Candy department. Try a bo*,
andwe>npwyou will bebackformore.
03 x t., Thompsonville, Ct.
T wotelephones, 89-21——46-2.
trolley «tQ|M hfra
Trees, Shrubs, Plants
• and Bulbs.
PLACE tOUR ORDER
NOW ! .
We are headquarters for every­thing
in the lineof Fruit and Shade
Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Hardy
Herbaceous Plauts.ClimbingVines
Small Fruits and Berry Plants,
Roses of all kinds, Summer Flow­ering
Bulbs, Asparagus and Rhu­barb
roots. \ -
L.. North-End Nurseriesr
CHESTER F.BRA1NARD,
Thompsonville.
Telephone—office Maple street.
Epstein's Express.
Farnitare and Piano Moving.
Light and Heavy Tracking.
Depot carnage meets all trains from
7.16 a m to 7 p m, and later if ordered,
tlave also an Adjustable Window Derrick foi
hoisting Pianos, etc.
Office 80 Main street Telephone con­nection.
A J. EPSTEIN, prop. P. O. Box 10J4
Besidence 16 Central St.,
ThoTODRonvlllft. >- Conn.
Oates' Express.
^ Oates' Express does all kinds of Light
•aid Heavy teaming.
Freight work is a special feature fo*
-Very-day business.
Moving pianos and household furni
nure carefully attended to.
Furniture stored by the week oi
month, with or without insurance
EDWIN OATES,
Prospect street, ,* . v
* i^omBflonville,sf>^Ooni»
Td)ar»hr>T>A'H»H 4.9-14 A
THE NAM
" E. M.
^ T; signed to a diploma signifies tfie highest excellence
of Business or Shorthand training in this
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Incorporated.
diploma means qualification?, and is obtained bhly by proper
examinations. - . .
Over 550 pupils attended last year; each pupU counted
This attendance was at leietst two if not three times as
that of any other business school in Hartford.
New pupils enter every week. < ;E M. HUNT8INGER, Principal,
Passenger Elevator. 30 Asyluto 8t.» Hartford,
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AL ICE LOUISE
Copyright Alice Louise
INCB his sixth year Leandet
Remely 2d had regarded Hal­loween
as sacred to getting even
with such inhabitants of Shedd's
Corners as had trampled on his rights
and privileges on many occasions.
Twice six HalIo\yeens had dawned
on him when his vengeance was direct­ed
toward a -certain; Jacob Fessler, only
a couple of years distant from Ellis is­land,
a big rawboned German who
picked up our language slowly and was
regarded as rather stupid until one
bright Saturday in October when that
illusion was dispelled.
Jacob lived on the swamp farm half
a mile from Shedd's Corners. The
name of the farm indicated its general
forlornness, while the little story and a
half ramshackle brown house near the
road bore witness to the fact that the
place was, in the language of Shedd's
Corners, "clean run down.".. This popu­lar
opinion Jacob Fessler, his mother, a
horse, two cows and a pig were doing
their best to undermine.
Of crops that first year Jacob had al­most
none, but nature provided him
with an amaiingly abundant October
crop, for which he had toiled not. Scat­tered
over the farm, on every grassy
knoll of the rocky hillside above the
SWamp, great chestnut trees spread
their branches full of ripe nuts.
Now, Jacob, being new to the land
and a stranger to its unwritten laws,
was foolish enough to suppose that the
chestnuts, being part and parcel of his
property, belonged to him, a mistake
which a dozen of the small boys of
Shedd's Corners, led by Leander 2d.
strove to point out to him that mem­orable
Saturday in October."
It was a bright, crisp morning, jusl
the time, thought Mrs. Remely, stand­ing
over the gridiron, to send Leander
out to sell soft soap in behalf of her
church fund; therefore she rapped
smartly on the stovepipe with the pan­cake
turner and called nasally: "Le-an-
der! Le-an-der! Get right up or
I'll tell your pa.'.'
There was no reply—she Jiad expect­ed
none—but immediately a loud
thump above, followed by another, form­ally
announced the faot that both of
Leander's feet had shot through the
legs of his trousers and were planted
on the floofr. Mrs. Remely knew^frpm
experiencerthat there must be. a ipectal
reason'for such unwonted activitv. but
she made no remarks when he r v ir-ed
at the stair door.
Leander, thoroughly acquainted with
that reason, also made no remarks.
Out in the barn, hidden, lay his fa­ther's
new bamboo fishing pole and
two of the'best meal sacks for which
Leander 1st had been searching three
days.
"Leander," remarked his mother at
the breakfast table, "after breakfast 1
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THB TWELFTH WAS IONOMTNIOrSLX HELD.
want that you, should take, that pail of
soap Mrs. Fessler made for me and go
up Maple street and sell it." She
dumped two smoking hot griddlecakes
on her son's plate as a propitiatory of­fering,
but it did not propitiate.
One fist .doubled ^mechanically into
his eye and a wail, of "Now, ma," arose,
but Leander 1st interposed sternly, "Do
as your mother says and stop that
bawling!"
This^ settled matters, fish pole, meal
sacks and all. Half an hour after Lean­der
started out his soul filled with a
loathing which included soft soap,
church projects and the imposition on
his time constantly occurring in the
bosom of his family. As to the project,
the women of the M. EJ. church were
seeing' who could raise the greatest
amount of money from an original in­vestment
of 10 cents each. As' a result
Mrs. Remely was victimizing the town
with soap manufactured for her by
Mrs. Fessler.
Just around the corner ^Leander ran
into his right hand lieutenant, Sissy
Brown, Sissy was headed for the
swamp armed with baskets and a long
pole. "Hey, there!" cried Sissy. "Wot
FOU up to now?"
"Soap!" sniffed Leander, holding the
pail of strong smelling, .Jellylike sub­stance
as far away as his arm would
reach. .
He had no need to say more. SiMf
understood. Sissj was> aour. out by his
mother • thrice a week with loaves of
now bread to sell. He had long fett
that never again cottld he eat anything
tainted with.the smell of new bread. ,
ihe boys exchange!.-looks.,
darstjre?" asked; Sissy^S? .|#^
"Xep,. I darstl" returned Leander, hw
eyes roving to the pole i: .id baskets.
'QTou -bo < ,mnnin', tt&h&enuu,"" -stfg;ger'
Jjjpnjltar nhoji^l!. A .{OOt sllBt .00t.i|
front of him. There was a crash, a fall,
and away rolled the pail of soap, spill­ing
its contents over the walk. Once
Leandet had performed a similar act of
friendship for Sissy when they wanted
to go fishing, only the bread had beet
directed into the gutter.
After that the way of the-transgress­ors
was easy —for awhile. Leander,
concluding not to reveal the catas­trophe
to his mother until later, hid the
pail: behind the fence, stole into the
barn by way of the stable door, secur­ed
the bag3 and fishing pole and in an
incre'dibly short time was thrashing
the chestnut trees on the swamp farm
along with Sissy and ten other kindred
spirits.
Hour after hour they worked, while
the sun's rays grew hotter until Lean­der
voiced the general condition when
he announced complaisantly that he
was "all of a lather!" To be sure, ho
was never complaisant about being
"lathered" when at, work- in his father's
garden, but what did perspiration mat­ter
beside two meal bags full of chest­nuts
at $3 per bushel ? Nothing matter­ed,
although he knew there must come
an hour of reckoning, for the bambbo
pole was a wreck, while the seat of his
.trousers was badly punctured owing to
a broken branch in a tree. Further­more
his hands, knees and elbows
wer^ full of prickers, and a hard red
lump adorned the back of his neck,
called Into being by a chestnut bur flee-
Ing^rom the end of a long pole.
Yes, he knew there must come an
hour of reckoning, but he had not
counted on its arriving so suddenly and
unexpectedly as it did.
It-was nearly noon when he headed
a procession of boys staggering under
their last loads toward the thicket near
the line fence where their treasure
was stored. He it was who pushed
first among the branches and saw the
heaped up bags—and something else!
He gave one yell, and a moment later
elfeyen boys, unincumbered, were flying^
heltier skelter over the fence, while the
twelfth was ignominiously held by
means of a broad German hand at the
seat of his punctured trousers and an­other
on his coat collar.
"Dist 1st eine, whay ybu call—it—bee,
ya?" inquired Jacob pleasantly as he
churned the unfortunate Leander up
and down. "Eine bee fur to nuts, gath­er!
Ya?"
With the last word Leander flew
head first across the fence, landed in a
mud puddle and went home a sadder
and: a madder, boy than when he had
started out w?th the soap.
The soap episode had entirely escap­ed
his mind, but not his mother's. An
inkling of the affair had reached her
owtag to the downfall of the minister,
whose salary the soap fund was in­tended
to swell. That good man found
It unhealthy to. tread on slippery places
and: had brought-his grievance, also the.
discovered soap pail, to the mortified
Mrs/Remely.
Therefore it happened that there was
a deal of one sided conversation in the
kitchen between Leanders the first and
the second directly on the latter's ar­rival,
and it ended by the second's re­tiring
to the wood shed while the first
cut off such a portion of the weeping
willow back of the house as was suit­able
to the occasion. That weeping
willow was already badly mutilated.
Late -in the day when Leander the
younger emerged from temporary con­finement
and dry crackers a gleam of
joy entered his soul at sight of the
calendar hanging under the kitchen
clock. Halloween was only two weeks
off!
As the days passed the joy was deep­ened
by various occurrences. First, in
conveying the last bag of chestnuts to
the store Jacob Fessler ha after the
horse had actively demonstrated his
ability to protect himself frOm Hal­loween
jokes. Leander was the one on
whom the demonstration made the
deepest impression.
The Jokers were becoming desperate
when Leander, nursing his bruises, had
a bright idea. It was not considered so
conspicuously brilliant as some of his
Ideas were because—
"Gee! Ifs too much work," grum­bled
Stesy.
"And It's one on the old woman, too,"
objected Mgshy White. Mushy al­ways
objectori. "We ain't got nothin'
laid up agio her!" s
"Think of aomethln' better yourseEf,
then!" defied Leander proudly, and the
opposition was silenced.
"Yon go to bed betimes tonight*" said
Leander 1st at the supper table on
Halloween. "I'm not going to have
my son tip to these disgraceful Hallow-piled
the "boxes neatly In the "barn.
The kindling wood victim grinned
broadly now in the darkness as he
thought of the days of leisure he was
securing himself by the transference of
those boxes to the swamp farm.
For five hours those twelve boys
worked in feverish haste, assisted by
old Dobbin, the Remely horse, that
had for fifteen years strenuously ob­jected
to feverish movements. But at
5 o'clock by the light of a setting moon
the conspirators viewed a sight worth
XIEANDEB DUCKED H'S HEAD BENEATH
THE TABLE.
looking: at. They sat In a row in the
shadow of the bushes opposite a wonder­ful
structure their industry had raised on
the swamp farm.
"Golly, boys! Ain't it a corker though?"
whispered Leander.
Sissy rubbed his lame back and giggled.
"They won't know when daylight strikes
'em till about noon, I guess."
"If pa should find out," mused Leander
aloud and then paused. He felt some del­icacy
about mentioning tlie weeping wil­low—
that being strictly a family matter—
and so added lamely: "He'd be some mad
over the kindling. Remember, you fel­lows,
It's never tell, crisscross hearts,
honest Injun!"
"You bet!" Mushy "hastened to assure
him earnestly. Mushy's earnestness was
based on reasons which arose on the ma­ternal
side of his family.
Then the boys stole away, looking back
lingeringly at the story and a half house,
no spot of which was visible because of
the hundreds of boxes which reared them­selves
to its height, followed the contour
of the roof and overtopped the chimney.
In front of the windows and doors were
barricades of the heaviest boxes. The
walks were outlined with boxes, while in
front of the barn door was a box tower
of Pisa, with a perilous lean toward the
garden fence. ,
Oh, it was a neat job, and Leander
swelled with pride as he entered his room
by way of the porch roof! But by break­fast
time the swelling had partially sub­sided,
for Leander had a bad case of
Bnuffles.
"Did you sleep with your -window
opieri?" demanded his mother.
Leander wiggled uneasily. "Guess the
wind did blow on me some," he admitted.
The sniffles were forgotten, however,
when the elder Leander stamped in from
the barn fresh from the discovery of his
loss.
"It's a shame, an outrage, a crime!
Such thefts ought to be hunted down and
the criminals brought to punishment!"
Leander 2d's legs gave way at the knee,
and he sat down suddenly.- "If other
parents took the same precautions we
do"—
Here he paused as his roving eye light­ed
on his shaking son. "Were you in bed
last night at 7:30?"
"Yes, sir," promptly, in a tone of relief.
"Besides the outrage of the thing," Mr.
Remely continued later in calmer mood,
"it is considerable loss to Leander here."
Leander ducked his head beneath the
table ostensibly to call the cat, in reality
to allow the corners of his mouth to turn
up unnoticed in an exultant grin as he
reflected that his father referred -to the
loss of exercise with the ax.
"I'd sold the kindling in those boxes to
Brown," Mr. Remely continued, "and
Intended to turn the whole business over
to Leander here for Christmas money.
"Twould amount to $4 or $5." .
The corners of Leander's mouth took a
decided downward curve. Vindictively he
kicked the cat under the table, and to
Sissy he confided in the middle of the
forenoon, "A feller can't seem to have no
fun any more anyway." He spoke gloom­ily
from the open window of his room,
whither Sissy had called him by a shrill
whistle.
His throat was done up in red flannel,
and a large mustard plaster was blister­ing
his chest. He was supposed to be in
bed.
"Say, that's a fact!" Sissy replied, with
unction, A large basket of new bread
weighed down each arm. "I've just been
over to the swamp peekin', and what'd
you think? Jake and the old woman was
out spllttin' up boxes and actin' tickled to
death. Jake he stood the knee of that
game leg of his'n on to a box and was
choppin* for all he was worth,"
Leander groaned, but the full signifi­cance
of Jacob's chopping did not dawn
on him till after dinner. Then the iron
entered his soul.
"Land!" exclaimed Mrs. Remely, bus­tling
into the sitting room. "Mrs: Fessler
has Just been here, and as near as I can
mak» out of her gabble Providence has
sent her a lot of wood so she can make
soap again. Now, Leander'—briskly—
"I'm going to spend the pest of the day
dosing you so'st you'll be.jrea^y to go out
peddling it tomorrow. I'll Just mix Up
another plaster and slap it on between
your shoulder blades and break up that
cough In no time. T ain't willing that
any one in the church shall have mors to
show for their 10 cents than I!'.' " .
Bnyingr a Gift. Boofcv?>|if "S'SfeSy?
Tbe principle of choice should in gen­eral
follow tbe taste or need of the
friend for whom you are selecting a
book. Yet It is also well now and
then to open a new channel of Interest
by giving a volume outside of your
friend's habitual line. We are often
thankful to a friend who has drawn us
out of our mental sheep tracks. There
are a few writers that stand as per­manent
figures in the modern literary
world—writers who have given out
seinlnal ideas that seed and beautify
the field of thought. Chief among these
men are Shakespeare, Carlyle, .Ruskin,
Emerson and Victor Hugo. Until a Ubra-een
tricks. See that he is in bed earlier' ry possesses at least the best writings
_ "" of these five men it is sadly deficient.
You are doing kingly service when you
make these men known to any thought­ful
mind.—Edwin Markham luSjwicess,,
than usual,* to Mrs. Remely. "Half
past 7 will do." -
Leander12d m^ekiy obeyed, but Since
the comfnand did not include the hour
of his rising, he fixed that for himself.
At midnight he stole out on the roof of
the porch and dropped to the ground
with the barn key in his hand.
The eleven were awaiting him;
The elder Remely was a grocer, and
at least three "times a year Leander
:r:g¥§pM[ I>pro»y, Law(.^>^4'
' In the earliest code of Brititenllawa
QOW extant—namely, that of Hoel Dha,
a/famous kihg of Gahibrla (the present
Wales), who died about the year 050
. ...... . A; D.—we find a canon enacting In
as hie could n±ot escape* transforming PWn aad •mmtetaKbte ten,, that
into kindling wood boxes of all sizes,
shapes and thicknesses.
"It'Sigood exercise for the boy," Le-
>ndyf11»t win wont tp r§gaark as he
married woman whose husband was
afflicted with leprosy was entitled not
only to separation, but also to the resti­tution
of ber goods.
many fields of hu-*
man activity the
world goes along in
a rat, without any par­ticular
reason, except ^
that it is a little incon­venient
to get out of it.
Then somebody
comes along with a lot
of courage and self-initiative
and says,
"You're wrong, and I
can prove it."
f He does so, and the
world wakes up to the
fact that he is right.
I am making just that
statement about the
present method of sell­ing
investments.
It is an ambitious thing for me
to say, but I know that I am right
and will prove it to your satisfac­tion
if you will read my adver­t
i s e m e n t s in t h i s p a p e r f r o m
week to week.
There is a real need for some
one who knows to tell the truth
about this subject.
Thomas C. Perkins
Conn. Mutual Building
Bartford, Conn.
J. Mulligan.
LAWYER,
Office 5 and 6, Mulligan block, Thomp­sonville,
Conn.
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